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After three years’ work, the newly cast sphinxes have returned to the roof of the Main University Building. The work, which uses a crane, began on 2 October. Now all the four of theme are landed. It was during an inspection of the University Main Building’s facade that the National Property Board of Sweden discovered that the building’s four sphinxes were in such poor condition that they needed to
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/sphinxes-have-landed - 2026-05-02
– I have red cells in my dish! When the phone call from PhD student Fábio Rosa came through, Professor Filipe Pereira knew that this was the start of something big. All their work had been leading to this moment. The red cells in the dish were from a mouse, and Filipe and his colleagues had been trying to reprogramme them into dendritic cells, specfically type 1 conventional dendritic cells, (cDC1
https://www.stemcellcenter.lu.se/article/tracing-academic-startups-journey-lab-discovery-cancer-therapy - 2026-05-01
There are many requirements on the food packaging of the future. They must be better and safer than today, while also environment-friendly, cost-effective, and aesthetically pleasing. In the product development race, Tetra Pak has teamed up with the Faculty of Engineering in Lund – LTH. The researchers' computer simulations accelerate development and increase knowledge of how different materials r
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/collaboration-better-packaging - 2026-05-01
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. Forskare publicerar nya rön om validerade biomarkörer för individens risk att utveckla Alzheimers sjukdom. Med en modell som kombinerar nivåerna av två specifika proteiner i blodet hos personer med lättare minnessvårigheter kan forskarna förutsäga risken att utveckla alzheimerdemens på individnivå. Forskarna har äve
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/biomarkorer-och-app-forutsager-individers-risk-utveckla-alzheimer - 2026-05-01
Den här artikeln är över 5 år gammal, och informationen kan därför vara inaktuell. ECT, eller elbehandling, är en behandling med god effekt för svårt deprimerade patienter. Men många patienter är oroliga för biverkningar, främst långvariga minnessvårigheter. Nu har forskare vid Lunds universitet i studier på möss undersökt om ECT påverkar halterna av proteinet beta-amyloid i hjärnan– det protein s
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/ny-studie-pa-moss-om-ect-och-alzheimers-protein-visar-lugnande-resultat - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. All over the world, thousands of experts are sitting entering information about their home countries into a huge democracy database. Soon, three quarters of the world’s countries will have been entered. “In my megalomaniac moments, I usually compare the database to the CERN particle accelerator. It will be as importan
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/gigantic-database-stores-information-about-democracy-worldwide - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Smith & Meissner are two researchers who have been hand-picked to find molecular clues to healing processes in the heart and blood vessels. A cardiologist and a molecular biologist who complement one another and work together to move research forward, Gustav Smith and Anja Meissner are one of the “tandem pairs” in
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/tandem-researchers-smith-meissner - 2026-05-01
Obesity is a common cause of diabetes, heart disease and early death, but risk differs greatly from one person to the next. In work led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden as part of the Innovative Medicine Initiative project SOPHIA, a pioneering clinical risk prediction algorithm has been developed that splits obesity into 5 separate diagnostic profiles each with contrasting health conseq
Vanya Darakchieva, Professor of Semiconductor Materials, and Heiner Linke, Professor of Nanophysics, have been named Wallenberg Scholars, a programme funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to support excellent basic research, primarily in medicine, engineering and natural sciences. Anne L'Huillier, Kimberly Dick Thelander and Stephanie Reimann, who are already Wallenberg Scholars, will
https://www.fysik.lu.se/en/article/two-physicists-become-new-wallenberg-scholars - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Researchers at Lund University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States have developed a method to analyse and separate cells from the blood. Ultimately, the method, which goes under the name iso-acoustic focusing, can become significant to measure the efficiency of cancer treatments for indi
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/new-ultrasound-method-increases-awareness-about-cancer-cells - 2026-05-01
Obesity is a common cause of diabetes, heart disease and early death, but risk differs greatly from one person to the next. In work led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden as part of the Innovative Medicine Initiative project SOPHIA, a pioneering clinical risk prediction algorithm has been developed that splits obesity into 5 separate diagnostic profiles each with contrasting health conseq
More than half a billion people are affected by type 2 diabetes – and the number is growing. In a recent publication in the journal Small, researchers explain how nanoelectroporation can be used to deliver molecules that can affect insulin expression through epigenetic means, potentially leading to new treatments. Genetics cannot explain type 2 diabetes, and epigenetics (i.e. chemical modification
https://www.nano.lu.se/article/taming-insulin-gene-nanoelectroporation - 2026-05-01
– We have a moral responsibility to document loss of cultural heritage, indigenous and local knowledge, declining ecosystems and eroding sense of place, says LUCSUS post-doctoral fellow Guy Jackson. He has co-authored a literature review on non-economic loss and damage which highlights the need for more research on intangible cultural heritage, and how it connects to our physical surroundings, as
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/new-literature-review-documents-non-economic-loss-and-damage-due-climate-change - 2026-05-01
In 2025, children within the TEDDY study will submit their final samples at research clinics in Sweden, Finland, Germany and the United States. The international study has provided a lot of new knowledge about type 1 diabetes and how the disease develops. Analysis of the samples will continue with the aim of preventing the disease. Sweden and Finland are the two top countries for incidence rates o
https://www.ludc.lu.se/article/new-knowledge-about-type-1-diabetes-large-scale-teddy-study-will-soon-be-completed - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Using harmless viruses to insert genes that produce healthy, healing substances into the brain... transplanting cells, possibly from the patient’s own skin... or, most sci-fi of all, controlling special treated nerve cells with light signals in the brain. These are three different paths to a possible treatment for epi
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/new-paths-treatment-epilepsy - 2026-05-01
Martin L. Olsson har tilldelats International Society for Blood Transfusions (ISBT) Presidential Award. ”Kronan på verket”, med pristagarens egna ord, på en lång karriär i blodtransfusionens tjänst. Priset delas ut vartannat år och går till en forskare i världen som gjort framstående insatser inom transfusionsmedicin. Martin L. Olsson får utmärkelsen för sin translationella forskning om röda blodk
https://www.medicin.lu.se/artikel/prestigefyllt-internationellt-pris-till-martin-l-olsson - 2026-05-02
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. As the body ages, there is a general loss of function in all organs. Among other things this leads to declining renal function and osteoporosis among the elderly, the latter to a greater extent among women. A new doctoral dissertation from Lund University illuminates women’s aging and investigates the relationship bet
https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/kidney-function-and-osteoporosis-elderly - 2026-05-01
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. “On a smaller scale, biofuels can be a good alternative for public transport, but we cannot solve the climate issue by simply replacing fossil fuels with biofuels. Instead, we must reduce our energy consumption, as the total energy consumption within road transports is not decreasing”, explains David Harnesk, research
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/article/eu-biofuel-regulation-not-sustainable-long-term - 2026-05-01
A lot has happened in coagulation medicine since Jan Astermark first started his research in the 1980s. The most recent progress is in gene therapy and the first patients with severe haemophilia who were treated in Malmö last year. “It is fantastically exciting to work in a research field where so much is happening. The research and the progress in treatment that have taken place in recent decades
https://www.staff.lu.se/article/promising-results-new-gene-therapy-method - 2026-05-01
Accumulation of the substance amyloid beta in the brain impairs the memory and cognitive ability in people with Alzheimer’s. New findings from Lund University in Sweden show that the cause of amyloid beta pathology might be more versatile than previously known. Researchers believe that these new findings may be of significance to the development of new medications. The accumulation of the protein
https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/alzheimers-more-versatile-previously-known - 2026-05-01
